Sun Geng, Ph.D., Professor of Chengdu Institute of biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Deputy chief at the thematic area of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services,Deputy chief of Key Laboratory of mountain ecological restoration and utilization of biological resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Deputy chief of Sichuan Key Laboratory of ecosystem restoration and biodiversity conservation. Mainly engaged in alpine grassland ecology, fragile ecosystem ecological protection and restoration, regional ecosystem management research.
Research Areas
Mainly engaged in the research of ecological restoration and construction of ecological barrier, basic management and application of ecosystem in typical vulnerable areas from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, And also engaged in alpine grassland ecology, fragile ecosystem ecological protection and restoration, regional ecosystem management basis and application basis research.
Education
1997.09-2001.07 East China University of Science and Technology Bachelor Applied Chemistry
2001.08-2004.07 Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Master Ecology
2004.08-2008.07 Chengdu Institute of biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ph.D Ecology
2005.05-2006.05 University of Wisconsin-Madisonvisiting scholar
Experience
Work Experience
2008.08-2013.10 Chengdu Institute of biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Assistant prof
2013.11-2014.11 Chengdu Institute of biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Associate prof
2014.12-2018.10 Chengdu Institute of biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Youth prof
2015.12-2016.12. Assistant to mayor of Dujiangyan City (temporary job)
2017.05-2019.05 Chengdu Institute of biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Deputy Chief of Center for Ecological Studies
2018.11 to now Chengdu Institute of biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof
2019.6 to now Chengdu Institute of biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Deputy chief at the thematic area of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
2019.09 to now Chengdu Institute of biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Director of ecological restoration and protection project team
2019.10 to now Key Laboratory of mountain ecological restoration and utilization of biological resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Key Laboratory of ecosystem restoration and biodiversity conservation, Sichuan Deputy chief
Teaching Experience
Alpine Ecology
Biogeochemical Cycle in the Background of Global Change
Publications
Papers
Xiaohui Li, Mengqi Zhang, Weiyang Xiao, Jie Du, Meiqun Sheng, Dalin Zhu, Anđelka Plenković‐Moraj and Geng Sun *. The Color Formation Mechanism of the Blue Karst Lakes in Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve, Sichuan, China. Water, 2020, 12, 771.
Zhonglin Tang, Geng Sun*, Min Fu, Chuanhao,* and Anđelka Plenković-Moraj. Research on the Industrial Energy Eco-Eciency Evolution Characteristics of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in the Temporal and Spatial Dimension, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020, 17, 268.
Zhang, Nannan, Geng Sun*, Bo Zhong, Entao Wang, Chungzhang Zhao, Wei Cheng& Wu, N. Impacts of wise grazing on physicochemical and biological features of soil in a sandy grassland on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. Land Degradation & Development, 2019, 1-11.
Hu, X., J. Li, G. Sun*, Y. Lei, B. Zhong, N. Zhang, J. He and N. Wu, 2018. Growth and reproduction characteristics of plant’s kin recognition in two different lifestyle species. International Journal of Agriculture & Biology, 20: 951−958.
Nan Nan Zhang, Geng Sun*, Jin Liang, En Tao Wang, Chang Guang Shi, Jing He, Xia Hu, Ning Wu. Response of ammonium oxidizers to the application of nitrogen fertilizer in an alpine meadow at Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Applied Soil Ecology 2018, 124, 266-274.
Zhonglin Tang, Geng Sun*, Nannan Zhang, Jing He and Ning Wu. Impacts of Land-Use and Climate Change on Ecosystem Service in Eastern Tibetan Plateau, China. Sustainability 2018, 10, 467.
Geng Sun*, Xia Zhu-Barker, Dongming Chen, Lin Liu, Nannan Zhang, Changguang Shi, Liping He, Yanbao Lei. Responses of root exudation and nutrient cycling to grazing intensities and recovery practices in an alpine meadow: An implication for pasture management, Plant and Soil, 2017, 416,515-525.
Lin Liu, Thomas A. Monaco, Feida Sun, Wei Liua, Youmin Gan, Geng Sun∗. Altered precipitation patterns and simulated nitrogen depositioneffects on phenology of common plant species in a Tibetan Plateaualpine meadow, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2017, 236: 36–47.
Lucas Silva, Geng Sun*, Xia Zhu, Qianglong Liang, Ning Wu, William Horwath, Recent tree growth acceleration and expansionofTibetan forests caused by synergies between rising atmospheric CO2 and climate effect on soils, Science Advances, 2016, 2, e1501302.
Geng Sun*, Zhiyuan Wang, Xia Zhu-Barker, Nannan Zhang, Ning Wu, Lin Liu,Yanbao Lei*, Biotic and abiotic controls in determining exceedingly variableresponses of ecosystem functions textreme seasonal precipitation in a mesophytic alpine grassland, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2016, 228-229, 180–190.
Zhiyuan Wang, Geng Sun*, Lucas C.R. Silva, Peng Luo, Chengxiang Mou, William R. Horwath. Quantifying the impact of drought on soil-plant interactions: A seasonal analysis of biotic and abiotic controls in high-altitudinal grasslands. Plant & Soil, 2015, 389( 1),59-71
Changguang Shi, Lucas C.R. Silva, Hongxuan Zhang, Qunying Zheng, Bingxue Xiao, Ning Wu*, Geng Sun*. Climate warming alters nitrogen dynamics and total non-structuralcarbohydrate accumulations of perennial herbs of distinctivefunctional groups during the plant senescence in autumn in an alpinemeadow of the Tibetan Plateau, China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2015, 200, 21–29.
Shi C, Sun G*, Zhang H, Xiao B, Ze B, Zhang NN, Wu N*. Effects of Warming on Chlorophyll Degradation and Carbohydrate Accumulation of Alpine Herbaceous Species during Plant Senescence on the Tibetan Plateau. PLoS ONE, 2014, 9(9): e107874.
Jinniu Wang+, Geng Sun+, Fusun Shi, Tao Lu, Qian Wang, Yan Wu, Ning Wu, Krishna P. Oli. Runoff and soil loss in a typical subtropical evergreen forest stricken by Wenchuan Earthquake: their relationships with rainfall, slope inclination and vegetation cover. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 2014, 69(1):65-74.
Haixia Guo+, Geng Sun+*, Fusun Shi, Tao Lu, Qian Wang, Yan Wu and Ning Wu*. Water, soil and nutrients losses caused by Wenchuan Earthquake: a case study in Pengzhou. Water Science and Technology, 2013, 68(5), 1055-1062.
Wei Cheng, Geng Sun*, Linfang Du, Yan Wu, Qunying Zheng, Ning Wu*. Unpalatable weed Stellera chamaejasme L. provides biotic refuges for neighbor species and conserves plant diversity in overgrazing alpine meadows of the Tibetan Plateau, China. Journal of Mountain Science, 2014,11(3): 746-754.
WANG Zhiyuan SUN Geng* LUO Peng* MOU Chengxiang WANG Jun. A study of soil-dynamics based on a simulated drought in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Mountain Science, 2013 10(5), 833–844
SUN Geng, LUO Peng, WU Ning*, QIU Pengfei, GAO Yongheng, CHEN Huai, SHI Fusun, Stellera chamaejasme L. increases soil N availability and supply rates and microbial biomass in an alpine meadow ecosystem on the eastern Tibetan Plateau of China, Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 41, 86-91, 2009.
SUN Geng, WU Ning*, LUO Peng, Soil N pools and transformation rates under different land uses in a subalpine forest-grassland ecotone, Pedosphere, 2005, 15, 51-58.
LI Yang, ZHONG Bo, CHEN Dongming, ZHANG Nannan*& SUN Geng*.Effects of root exudates of different carbon concentrations and sources on soil aggregate stability. Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology, 2019, 25(5):1-10.[in Chinese with English Abstract]
CHEN Qiujie, ZHANG Nannan, ZHONG Bo, et al. Change of soil nutrient and aggregate structure during the desertification process of grassland in Zoige. Ecological Science, 2019, 38(4): 13-20. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
YAN Wenchao, SUN Geng*, ZHANG Chunbo, HE Jing& ZHANG Nannan.Impacts of experimental warming and moderate grazing on ecosystem carbon exchange and its compositions in an alpine meadow on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology, 2018, (01):132-139. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
ZHONG Bo, SUN Geng, CHEN Dongming, ZHANG Nannan. 2017. Effects of different restoration measures on soil microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen and soil enzymes in the process of restoration of the desertified grassland in Zoige. Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 26(3): 392-399. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
CEHNG Wei, ZHONG Bo, XU Lianying, et al. Allelopathic effects of root aqueous extract of different age of Stellera chamaejasme on four common plants in alpine meadow of Tibet Plateau. Ecological Science, 2017, 36(4): 1-11. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
LI Jie, SUN Geng *, WU Ning, WANG Jing& HU Xia.Kin selection in Lolium multiflorum L. Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology ,2016, 22(06):1063-1068. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
CHEN Dongming, ZHANG Nannan, LIU Lin*, ZHONG Bo, TANG Zhonglin, YAN Wenchao, XU Liangying& SUN Geng*.The effect of different restoration measures on the desertified alpine grassland in Zoigê. Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology, 2016,22(4):573-578. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
CHEN Dongming, SUN Geng*,ZHENG Qunying, ZHANG Nannan, RAN Qifan, SHI Changguang, XU Liangying, ZENG Kai & LIU Lin*.The effects of grazing on root exudates of dominant species in an alpine meadow of the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology, 2016,22(4):555-560. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
ZHONG Bo, SUN Geng*, CHENG Wei, ZHANG Nannan& CHEN Chao*.Effects of Wenchuan Earthquake on soil nutrient dynamics in forest. Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology, 2016,22 ( 5 ) : 773-779. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
RAN Qifan, SUN Geng*, LIU Lin*, ZHANG Nannan, SHI Changguang, CHEN Dongming& MA Jianzhong.Changes in carbon f luxes during the desertif ication process of alpine grasslands on the Zoige Plateau. Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology, 2015, 21(05):954-95. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
MOU Chengxiang, SUN Geng*, LUO Peng*, WANG Zhiyuan& LUO Guangrong.Flowering Responses of Alpine Meadow Plant in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau to Extreme Drought Imposed in Different Periods. Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology, 2013,19 ( 2 ) : 272-279. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
SUN Geng, LUO Peng,WU Ning.Pollen allelopathy of Stellera chamaejasme orpollen germination and seed set of main species in a High-frigid Meadow on the Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2010, 30: 4369-4375. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
SUN Geng,WU Ning*,LUO Peng.Characteristics of soil nitrogen and carbon of pastures under different management in Northwest Sichuan. Acta Phytoecologica Sinica, 2005, 29(2):304-310. [in Chinese with English Abstract]
Patents
Sun Geng, Zhang Nannan, Lei Yanbao . A restoration method of sandy grassland.Application No.: 201610103029.1 registration date (20190212), application date: February 25, 2016
Research Interests
Restoration Ecology; Grassland Ecology; Ecosystem Ecology; Regional Ecology Restoration Ecology; Global Change Ecology; Ecosystem Management
Students
Students-Guided
Tuo Xiaoju Master 085238 Bio-Engineering
Li Yang Master 071300 Ecology
Students-Guiding
Li Xiaohui Master 085238 Bio-Engineering
Li Luhang Master 085238 Bio-Engineering
Deng Xianzhi Master 085238 Bio-Engineering
Honors & Distinctions
Sungeng(6/7),Restoration of degraded vegetation and sustainable utilization of grassland in the forest grass ecotone of high mountains in Western Sichuan, Sichuan Provincial Department of science and technology, second prize of science and technology progress, 2009
Sungeng(2/7),Research and demonstration of comprehensive technology for ecological restoration of Alpine Grassland in Northwest Sichuan, science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province, second prize of science and technology progress, 2016